partnership research

INRGREF is a research institute whose missions are to:

to contribute to the elaboration of the national research policy in the fields of Water, Forestry and Rural Engineering.
to develop the results of its research and scientific know-how.
to participate in the development of scientific and technical research and its insertion in the economic and social field.
to carry out an activity of scientific and technological promotion and also to participate in that of expertise and monitoring at the service of the economy in the fields of rural engineering, water and forests.

we have been working for several years on the reintegration of spontaneous legumes into oak forest ecosystems as a means of restoring and rehabilitating these forests, which have been aggravated by the latest climate change.
Our research focused on abundant legume species in Kroumirie in association with the cork oak. We have shown that this association type can increase soil fertility and thus the primary productivity of the forest ecosystem. Our objectives are to promote oak and legumes association by encouraging its introduction in cork oak populations made more vulnerable by the latest climatic change.